President Trump has “great concern” about allegations of bias that face several current or former members of the team set up by special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday.
“If we’re going to continue to investigate things, let’s look at it when there’s some real evidence and some real proof of wrongdoing,” Sanders told reporters at the White House.
Her comments came hours after reports that an outside attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow, had called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate allegations of bias related to Mueller’s team.
An investigator, Peter Strzok, received a demotion from Mueller’s office over the summer over allegedly anti-Trump texts he sent to a woman with whom he had an affair, fellow FBI employee Lisa Page. A prosecutor on Mueller’s team, Andrew Weissmann, sent an email in January praising former acting Attorney General Sally Yates’ decision to defy Trump’s travel ban executive order, and reportedly attended Hillary Clinton’s election night party.
“I know that [Trump] has great concern about some of the conduct that’s taken place,” Sanders said.
